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CHAPTER 18 ORDER OF THE PRAESIDIUM MEETING 107
goes to waste, without a particular examen and definite application! A
gallon of petrol might be misused to blow a car skyhigh; with care
and inventiveness it can be employed to propel it to the top of the
hill.” (Life of Father William Doyle S.J.: Msgr. Alfred O’Rahilly)
3. The meeting opens with the invocation and prayer to
the Holy Spirit, who is the source of that Grace, that Life, that
Love, of which we rejoice to regard Mary as the channel.
“From the moment when she conceived the Son of God in her
womb, Mary possessed, so to speak, a certain authority or jurisdiction
over every temporal procession of the Holy Spirit, in such sort that no
creature receives any grace from God except through her mediation
. . . All the gifts and virtues and graces of the same Holy Spirit are
administered by her to whom she pleases, when she pleases, and in
the quantity and manner she pleases.” (St. Bernardine: Sermon on the
Nativity)
[Note: The latter part of the above declaration in almost identical
words is also found in the writings of St. Albert the Great (Biblia
Mariana, Liber Esther I), who lived 200 years before St. Bernardine]

4. There follow five decades of the rosary, of which the
Spiritual Director shall initiate the first, third, and fifth, and
the members the second and fourth. No member is to act as if
the rosary were a silent prayer. The same measure of dignity
and respect should be imparted to its recitation as if the
gracious personage to whom it is addressed were visibly
present in the place of the statue representing her.
The proper recitation of the Ave requires that the second
part should not begin until the first has been finished, and
the Holy Name of Jesus reverently pronounced. The rosary,
playing, both by rule and by recommendation, such an
important part in the life of the legionary, each one is urged
to register in the Rosary Confra ter nity. (see appendix 7)
Pope Paul VI insists that the rosary must be preserved. It is
pure prayer. Its contents are eminently biblical. It effectively
summarises the whole history of salvation, and it fulfils the
essential purpose of exhibiting Mary in all her various roles in
that history.
“Among the different ways of praying, there is none more
excellent than the Rosary. It condenses into itself all the worship that
is due to Mary. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our
blessings.” (Pope Leo XIII)
“Of all prayers the Rosary is the most beautiful and the richest in
graces; of all it is the one which is most pleasing to Mary, the Virgin